About this podcast
Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 97 episodes
- Kick The Can · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 96Could it be possible that a fountain of youth exists? Not a spring filled with water that reverses the aging process when we drink it or bathe in it, but a state of mind, an…
- Closed On Sundays · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 95Nowadays, when most businesses are open on Sundays and we can shop on line twenty-four hours a day, it must be impossible for younger people to understand what it was like for…
- Cold Brew And A Croissant · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 94How’d you like to visit your childhood home only to find out your old address no longer exists?
- What Are We Having For Supper? · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 93Lots of things have changed since I was a kid, but there’s one question American kids have been asking every day since the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. “What are we having…
- A Few Of My Favorite Things · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 92I became a podcaster because I love podcasts. They’re entertaining, educational and sometimes even inspirational. This week, I’d like to tell you about a handful of my favorites…
- I Do So Declare · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 91By the time we were sixth graders, we were used to our teachers’ theatrics. The antiquated flowery language, trite worn out proverbs and dumb expressions meant to showcase their…
- Future Shock · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 90In the mid-1960s, our teachers warned us we would someday suffer from something called “future shock.” Our world would change so drastically and so rapidly that we wouldn’t be…
- Back To School · 18 min · Season 2 Episode 89The first few weeks of a new school year were always a rather frenetic period of readjustment and settling in. Get used to a new teacher. Get the right notebooks. Cover all those…
- The Psychedelic Shop · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 88In the late 1960s, you didn’t have to be fully aligned with the counterculture to enjoy a visit to a psychedelic shop. You just had to be open to new ideas and have a willingness…
- The New Look · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 87Mary Quant, the fashion designer whose creations defined the 1960s “mod” era said she spent her thirteenth birthday crying because in her words, “old age had struck.” All she had…
- The Candy Store · 18 min · Season 2 Episode 86When we were little kids, just about everything was chosen for us, but the candy store was a place where we got to pick what we wanted.
- Submitted For Your Approval · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 85Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Rod Serling. Well, maybe not everything, but lots of important stuff. By the time I was thirteen, I’d seen every single…
- Yoga · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 84A richer, fuller more joyful life? Relaxation, discipline and more will power? Increased physical, mental and spiritual control? Who wouldn’t want all that?
- Our Summer Reading List · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 83Nowadays, they call it “me time.” A time to shut out work, world and worries and just concentrate on wellbeing and recharging the physical and spiritual batteries. When I was a…
- The Summer of Love · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 82The summer of 1967, so frivolously referred to as the summer of love was a turning point, an ending and a beginning. Somewhere around the middle of July, the counterculture…
- Where Are We Going Today? · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 81Summer days were long, lazy and dreamy. We were content to spend most of our school vacation outside eating ice cream, drinking sodas and playing with friends on the avenue…
- From Unknown Faces · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 80In January 1968, my favorite band, The Byrds released an album called The Notorious Byrd Brothers. Life-long fans like me referred to it as “the Notorious album.” One of the…
- Half Gaelic, Half Garlic · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 79When we were kids, it was common for us to ask each other, “What are you?” What we were actually asking was, “What nationality are you? Where’s your family from?”
- A Bench For All Seasons: Summer · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 78Even as a child, I was in love with the seasons, their unique personalities and the different things they did to get our attention. But if you asked me what my favorite season…
- The Eternal Kid: A Father's Day Story · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 77The reason I have so many stories about my father from my own childhood and from the stories he told me about his years as a kid is because of my exceptional memory—the one I’m…
